The granting of this patent means that any product presentation of SPL7013
(the active ingredient in VivaGel® ) is now protected in the US for an additional
five years until 2024, with a possible further 12 month extension to 2025. Given
the importance of genital herpes and other STIs in the US, this market is clearly
a major commercial opportunity for VivaGel® products.

This composition of matter patent is the third patent for VivaGel® to be
granted in the US, and adds to the already extensive patent coverage for the
product in 26 countries covering all major markets.

VivaGel® is being developed as a condom coating in collaboration with SSL
International plc (LSE:SSL), the world’s leading condom company. SSL markets
the global brand Durex®, and holds approximately 40% of the global branded
condom market. Following a deal announced in 2008, SSL has exclusive marketing
rights for the VivaGel® coated condom.

Starpharma is also developing VivaGel® as a vaginal microbicide to prevent
the transmission of STIs, including HIV and genital herpes.

Starpharma Holdings Limited (ASX:SPL, OTCQX:SPHRY) is a world leader in the
development of dendrimer nanotechnology for pharmaceutical, life-science and
other applications. SPL has two operating companies, Starpharma Pty Ltd in Melbourne,
Australia and DNT, Inc in the USA. Products based on SPL’s dendrimer technology
are already on the market in the form of diagnostic elements and laboratory
reagents through licence arrangements with partners including Siemens and Merck
KgA.

The Company’s lead pharmaceutical development product is VivaGel®
(SPL7013 Gel), a vaginal microbicide designed to prevent the transmission of
STIs, including HIV and genital herpes. In September 2008 Starpharma signed
a full licence agreement with SSL International plc (LSE:SSL) to develop a VivaGel®
coated condom. SSL manufactures and sells Durex® condoms, the market-leading
condom brand worldwide. Starpharma's receipts under the agreement are estimated
to exceed A$100m comprising royalties on SSL sales, further milestone payments,
and development support.

In the wider pharmaceutical field Starpharma has specific programs in the areas
of Drug Delivery and Drug Optimisation technologies (using dendrimers to control
where and when drugs go when introduced to the body) and Targeted Diagnostics
(using dendrimers as a scaffold to which both location-signalling and targeting
groups are added to allow location of specific cell type, such as cancer cells).
More broadly the company is exploring dendrimer opportunities in materials science
applications including water remediation.

Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker, Executive Director of the National Graphene Association (NGA), talks to AZoNano about the current state of the graphene market and how global standards can help sercure the materials future.

DR. Madeline J. Dukes, an Application Scientist from Protochips talks to AZoNano about their range of products, that are pushing the boundaries for laboratories who in the past where challenged when it came to in situ TEM tools.

SEM-Base® VI is considered to be the next generation in STACIS active piezoelectric vibration cancellation. The design of the SEM-Base VI allows it to support all commercial Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEMs), and also many Small Dual Beam and Focused Ion Beam (FIB) instruments.

The eLINE Plus from Raith is the optimum, extensively distributed system for Research Centers and Universities that want to integrate an Electron Beam Lithography system with an open platform for additional optional nanofabrication processes and methods in a single tool.

A Life Scientist wants to be able to see how biological materials look like at nanoscale resolution and how soft they are in buffer and liquid conditions. The Park NX-Bio enables that with its highly acclaimed Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) technology and its innovative in-liquid imaging Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy (SICM).